The joys of "casual gaming" and other fun toys

Mrs. WeHaveCookies and I have recently been on a flash gaming binge.

This French interactive music toy is quite fun. It is kinda hard to describe. You just have to dive in.

Jayisgames.com has access to a mind-numbing quantity of games.

Some of my favorites include:

Grow- Of course…
Grow Cube
Grow RPG
Iso-infected - This one is basically the lovechild of two of my favorite games as a kid: Marble Madness and Airball. Truly a nostalgic delight.
Rumble Ball - addictively simple and yet pleasantly appealing.

I could go on and on…and on…

They’ve even written a nice Google gadget where you can add a randomly rotating slection of Jay’s games to your personalized google page. Just to make it that much easier to waste a few hours.

I hate you.

I hate you with a passion that eclipses the burning sun. :wink:

AAAAAGH. Grow! I know it’s been linked here before, I’ve seen the threads. But dammit, I resisted. And now I can resist no more!

I might as well make it easy for you then :wink:

Grow Version 2

:smack:

Trigger-happy pinkie.

Grow Ornament (aka Grow Tree) - Just in time for the holidays.

That just about covers all of the ones I’m aware of.

But of course then you have…

Tribute to Grow

I love casual gaming, but I never understood Grow. I did get a kick out of Flow, however.

I’m less of a Flash game fan, though. I really like the small no-install executables I can carry around on my flash drive. Transcendence is one of my all-time favorites.

Does anyone know of a good casual strategy game? Nothing so traditional like chess, but not so back-breakingly unwieldy and large as Freeciv…

Yay! I finally solved a grow puzzle! (Haven’t worked out the others quite yet).

Present, cloud, heart, light bulb, ribbon, star

I loves me some GROW. And flOw is awesome, too – you know Sony snapped them up and are planning a PS3 version?

I’d also recommend Orisinal for a bit of a break – these are quickie little games, but don’t have a pause function, just so you know.